Discovery Fellows

The Mellon Discovery Fellowship program brings together graduate students from a variety of disciplines at the early stages of their careers in the belief that it is important and valuable to encourage collaborative exchange from the very beginning of graduate study. Funded by the Townsend Center and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program supports up to seven entering graduate students in the humanities and related fields for their first three years of graduate work at Berkeley.

Discovery Fellows 2011-2014

New Discovery Fellows

Jennifer Blaylock, Film and Media
Lisa Brooks, South and Southeast Asian Studies
Ayelet Even-Nur, Near Eastern Studies
Paige Johnson, Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies
Maya Kronfeld, Comparative Literature
Trent Walker, Buddhist Studies

Continuing Discovery Fellows

William Coleman, History of Art
Kathryn Crim, Comparative Literature
Kenneth Fockele, German
Christopher Gregory, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Jonathan Haddad, French
John Kapusta, Music
Chloe Kitzinger, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Erica Lee, History
Derin McLeod, Classics
Elizabeth Pearson, Sociology
Alexa Punnamkuzhyil, Film Studies
Chiara Ricciardone, Rhetoric
Marina Romani, Italian Studies